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02-20-2019, 08:10 PM
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Cosmic Art Collector
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Heroes Con, 2010, Jimmy Cheung is working the Heroes Initiative booth doing sketches for $40. I get to him and ask for Thanos. I get a deer in headlights look, which I often got (Avengers hadn't come out yet, so not everyone was a Thanos freak at that point). In any case, I had reference with me and got the below sketch.
Skip to 2013, Thanos is everywhere and Jimmy was drawing him in the Infinity storyline. I was lucky enough to pick up one of his nicer images of Thanos at NYCC for $600. Considering the hype and who I was dealing with, I was shocked it was so cheap. Sometimes it's just right time, right place with this stuff.
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02-20-2019, 08:21 PM
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#42
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Modzilla
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That Thanos page was a bargain! You also own the first Thanos sketch Coipel has ever drawn. That should be worth a mint! ;-)
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02-20-2019, 10:31 PM
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#43
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
Join Date: Jan 2006
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Originally Posted by JadeGiant
I'd say
I have been admiring that piece since I started collecting. That's a keeper!
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Thanks it one of my favorite pieces too, i tried to get jim to do a planet hulk but he choose the reg hulk because ph would be too time consuming he said. I had print outs of the bowen statues that came out in 2009 for reference.
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02-21-2019, 12:31 AM
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Fantomah
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by galactus
Heroes Con, 2010, Jimmy Cheung is working the Heroes Initiative booth doing sketches for $40. I get to him and ask for Thanos. I get a deer in headlights look, which I often got (Avengers hadn't come out yet, so not everyone was a Thanos freak at that point). In any case, I had reference with me and got the below sketch.
Skip to 2013, Thanos is everywhere and Jimmy was drawing him in the Infinity storyline. I was lucky enough to pick up one of his nicer images of Thanos at NYCC for $600. Considering the hype and who I was dealing with, I was shocked it was so cheap. Sometimes it's just right time, right place with this stuff.
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Those are awesome Drew. I think prices shot up overall after that; published, commissions, all across the board. Jim was still doing $300 bust commissions on 11x14 at the time too.
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Originally Posted by Bishop40
Thanks it one of my favorite pieces too, i tried to get jim to do a planet hulk but he choose the reg hulk because ph would be too time consuming he said. I had print outs of the bowen statues that came out in 2009 for reference.
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Artists always choose Hulk over PH if given the choice I've found. Still, you're a lucky duck!
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02-21-2019, 10:32 AM
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Cosmic Art Collector
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mean Green
Those are awesome Drew. I think prices shot up overall after that; published, commissions, all across the board. Jim was still doing $300 bust commissions on 11x14 at the time too.
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I agree TC, prices overall have just gone up. It's one of the main reasons I got away from commissions and stuck with OA; prices were pretty much on par with one another for a while. Why pay an artist $500 for a commission, not knowing if or when I would get it (and what it would end up looking like), when I could spend roughly the same amount on a published page which I got instantly and knew what I was getting? Of course, then these guys started charging 3x as much for their published stuff and I tapped out, LOL!
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02-21-2019, 10:50 AM
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Fantomah
Join Date: Mar 2009
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Quote:
Originally Posted by galactus
I agree TC, prices overall have just gone up. It's one of the main reasons I got away from commissions and stuck with OA; prices were pretty much on par with one another for a while. Why pay an artist $500 for a commission, not knowing if or when I would get it (and what it would end up looking like), when I could spend roughly the same amount on a published page which I got instantly and knew what I was getting? Of course, then these guys started charging 3x as much for their published stuff and I tapped out, LOL!
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...and cashed in? Haha!
I keep telling myself published art is the way to go. And then I wake up and find another artist's art that I like and I find myself shooting them a message... 
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02-21-2019, 12:10 PM
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Hellfire Club
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mean Green
...and cashed in? Haha!
I keep telling myself published art is the way to go. And then I wake up and find another artist's art that I like and I find myself shooting them a message... |
anyone we should keep an eye out for? 
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02-21-2019, 01:28 PM
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#48
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The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.
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Originally Posted by carlito1978
anyone we should keep an eye out for? |
you won't like them they are all hulk artist carlos 
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02-21-2019, 10:31 PM
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#49
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Cosmic Art Collector
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mean Green
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02-22-2019, 12:06 AM
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#50
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Spider-Woman #1 Fan
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Reading this thread about Fabok reminds me I'm not only old in music but comics now too. I have no idea who he is, much like the current musicians.
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